Re: IBM 1401
From: WardKenR (kward001_at_maine.rr.com)
Date: 07/14/04
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Date: 14 Jul 2004 13:03:16 -0700
robert.deletethis@wagner.net (Robert Wagner) wrote in message news:<40f24e40.45086202@news.optonline.net>...
> kward001@maine.rr.com (WardKenR) wrote:
>
> >not to age myself but Whilst back in the USMC circa 1972-75 at
> >Barstow, CA
> >we had an old 1401 that we used to put a radio on and tune it to the
> >low end and then run a deck of cards thru it and the radio would
> >'play' the Marine Corp Hymn.
>
> I wrote such a program while working on a USMC 1401 on Okinawa in the early
> '60s. Radio waves came from Core Storage performing repeated moves. The length
> of the move determined the frequency of the note. V1.0 produced robotic
> monotones. I was adding overtones when time ran out.
>
> Our machine was in a '6 by' truck that pulled a 60KVA diesel generator. We
> occasionally practiced field computing in swamps and mountains. In retrospect,
> Wagner's Ride of the Valkyrie would have been appropriate music. :)
So you were the one that did that deck-o-musical cards!
semper fi.
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